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Appendix No. 31. 

 SuKVEY OF Township of Fauquier, District op Timiskaming. 



Parry Sound, November 3'Oth, 1913. 



Sir, — ^I have the honour to report that under your instructions I surveyed 

 the first eight concessions of the township of Fauquier, into farm lots. 



I left Cochrane with my party on the 2nd of August and went into camp at 

 Conmee Station, in the township, the same day, and commenced the survey of the 

 township the next day by brushing out and chaining the south boundary from 

 the south-east angle, where I found an iron and a wooden post both regularly 

 marked and continued the survey, finishing my work the second of October. 



The greater part of this township will make good farming land. Although 

 a considerable portion of it is swampy, it appears to have good drainage. There 

 is very little of what may be called muskeg in the township, and I only saw exposed 

 rock on the west and south shores of Eemi Lake. The soil throughout the township 

 is clay loam. 



The timber on the high ground is poplar, spruce, birch and balsam and in 

 the swamps is principally spruce. 



There are several burnt areas in the township, the most of them tracable from 

 the Transcontinental Eailway, which passes through the township entering on the 

 east side in Concession 1 and passing out on the west side in Concession VI. 

 There are several places immediately along the Transcontinental Eailway where 

 an acre or two has been cleared up, or, rather, the old logs have been cut and 

 piled up but not burnt (all in burnt section), bu*t the parties who did the work 

 were not on the ground when I was making the survey. The only one who had a 

 house was a man named "Primeau,'' living with his family on Lot 12, Concession 

 III. I saw no ground under cultivation. Primeau was a section foreman on the 

 Transcontinental Eailway. 



I planted an iron bar post on the centre line of the south boundary, where 

 it is intersected by the centre line of side road 12 and 13, marked on the north, 

 east, west, and south with ''E" ; also planted an iron bar post on the centre line 

 of said side road where it intersects the south shore of Eemi Lake marked with 

 "E" on" the south, east, and west sides, I also planted an iron bar at the north- 

 west angle of Lot 29, Concession VI., and at the north-east angle of Lot 1, Con- 

 cession VL, both regularly marked for the respective lots. 



I did not see any indications of mineral in the township. The rock formation 

 is granite. 



Eemi Lake in the north part of the township is a clear water lake with plenty 

 of fish, pike, pickerel, and whitefish. Other and smaller lakes in the township are 

 said to have plenty of pike. 



I observed Polaris for meridian at eastern elongation on Lot 12, Concession 

 III.; on Lot 21, Concession V., and on Lot 13, Concession VL The magnetic 

 variation is 6 degrees 45 minutes west. 



I have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) David Beatty. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



